I stopped having coco when I went vegan. I hear there are non terrible ways to get it but I can’t actually find any sold where I’m confident the people growing it get paid enough to enjoy the chocolate products I want.

I really miss it. Carob does not make a delicious hot drink.

please, veganism is a way of life but arch linux is my reason to live.

Are people surprised by this?

Aussie privacy law is a joke

Not even but like literally this country. There’s less justification for the Australian government to claim sovereignty here. When you look at how aboriginal Aussies are treated, by the legal system and the health system for example, it’s hard to argue it isn’t genocide of a minority who have a claim to this land.

I get so frustrated at how, meaningful issues about the dubious actions of nation states are justified under international law become political theatre for power struggles.

Basically all large nations have peoples that want to split, but because international law requires nations to recognise a people before they get the protection of the law nobody properly does it as everyone could say “ok, you first”. International law is important, it lets us resolve conflicts without war and somewhat check superpowers. Reducing it to farce is a tragedy.

Been feeling the crushing weight of vystopia lately. It’s disappointing that almost everyone I know is more interested in their own convenience than justice. Over the last ~7 years I’ve basically lost interest in maintaining relationships with my non vegan friends (that are left lmao).

Where I live is pretty cliquey and carnist which has made finding meatspace vegan friends hard. Half of those I’ve met are wishy washy health cheating “vegans” which also sort of suck.

I’m glad my wife and my sisters are all vegan though. At least I do have a few people I’m really close to who understand that there is a difference between right and wrong.

I sincerely hope that this wave of anti assimilation centered around China manifests as a universal view that peoples have the right to break away from states.

Like holy shit to I hope for a future where states crumble and fragment, where indigenous Aussies can claim the red center (at least), the Catalonians and Basque people can break away etc.

International law is so strongly biased in states favour (because they make it) I would absolutely fucking love for anti Chinese sentiment to manifest as actual fucking consistent viewpoints.

Yep. They have just as much right to live as you. Find other options, I’m sure you can.

And yet almost everyone I’ve ever shown slaughterhouse footage to did not change at all.

I think that has more to do with being seen to do a thing or not. Nobody is actually stupid enough to just forget what is involved from one moment to the next.

There’s a difference between wanting to feel pleasure at the result of killing someone and wanting to feel pleasure over the result of killing them?

How is a meal different to a trophy or a photograph? Or even just the memory of the killing.

Why not? It’s not necessary, right, healthy, or environmentally friendly. What reason is left but pleasure? you eat steak instead of tofu to pass the time more pleasantly, no different from someone whaling or shooting rhinos

My mistake, I forgot that paying hitmen absolved you of moral responsibility.

I will never understand how something like 96% of the population kills for pleasure but thinks hunting for pleasure is wrong.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/6386295

Well you might enjoy that coffee is a drupe then :)

You and I have very different notions of fun.

got it in one :) biological classification heirarchy shit confuses me too. Actually it’s really funny in plants because often horticultural and biological classifications differ. Just in case the world made too much sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legume

For a computer or a filing cabinet sure.

The usa is the antisocial country talking like yoda and insisting they’re the best. Meanwhile everyone else avoids them because they smell of piss and have weird suspicious blood stains on them.

farm transparency are heroes. Australian farming is horrific and their work to expose it is fantastic.

Unfortunately oz is a police state and our rights to a transparent society evaporated in the racist fear following 11/9/01 so here we are.

Recently Australia prosecuted a whisteblower who had evidence of war crimes performed by troops deployed in Afghanistan. So it’s good to know that the court system isn’t speciest in suppressing information at least.